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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Who is known as "Shehenshaah" of GHazal? No. It's not GHalib, as many would like it to be. That includes me too. So I was surprised, when a very kowledgeable person told me that it's "'Mir' Taqi Mir"! Do you remember yesterday's Sher ? :-)

Why? Because Mir was the "chief" architect responsible for giving GHazal the beauty it has. With him started the Golden Period of GHazal. He gave it the present form, and induced the "dard" and "nazaakat" in GHazal. His Shayari was simple and elegant. It never fails to touch your heart.

Although it's not possible to include all the examples in this series, I will try to make the point with a couple of his Shers in coming days.